Re: MUST be UTC?

[Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham wrote:

> On 11 Jul 2004, at 6:13 pm, Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> > LiveJournal has recorded some dates where they don't know where the 
> > author is located.
>
> But they don't know how to correctly convert them to UTC (do they?), 
> which is a requirement of using "-00:00". I think LiveJournal falls 
> under section 4.4 "Unqualified Local Time".

I've gone back and reread this section more carefully, and now concur 
with your interpretation.

Oddly, this is 180 degrees off of where the threat indicated by this 
subject line started.  The premise of this RFC seems to be that time 
zones are useful information and should be included whenever possible. 
"-00:00" seems to be a way to indicate that this information is lost.

In any case, I now agree that this does not address LiveJournal's needs.

- Sam Ruby